videoP2Proxy

Proxy to enable xiaomi P2P only cameras to work with standard protocols.
Works without changing the firmware of the camera, MiHome cloud will continue to work.

Known working models

Xiaomi Aqara Smart Gateway IP Camera: lumi.camera.aq1
Other Xiaomi cameras should also work, please test and report with a issue

Quick start on Raspbian

Install dependencies

Install dependency packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential git python3 python3-dev autoconf automake libtool liblivemedia-dev libjson-c-dev

Install https://github.com/rytilahti/python-miio
```
pip3 install python-miio
```

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/miguelangel-nubla/videoP2Proxy.git
cd videoP2Proxy

Build

./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Run the RTSP proxy

videop2proxy --ip CAMERA_IP --token CAMERA_HEX_TOKEN --rtsp 8554

Example output running correctly:

Starting proxy...
Starting RTSP server on "rtsp://192.168.1.2:8554/"
(Using port 8000 for optional RTSP-over-HTTP tunneling.)

[P2P client] starting...
IOTC_Initialize2...
IOTC_Connect_ByUID_Parallel... SID:0
avClientStart2... userName: c8da138df16 passWord: a1c8da1df11a
avClientStart2 mAvIndex=0
startIOTC video ret=0
startIOTC audio ret=0
[P2P client] running
[ReceiveVideo] Running
[ReceiveAudio] Running

Use it with Home Assistant

Simply add to your configuration.yaml

camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://192.168.1.2:8554/

Usage

$ videop2proxy --help
Usage: videop2proxy --ip CAMERA_IP --token CAMERA_HEX_TOKEN [...] 

Options:
  --ip IP             [Required] Camera ip address.
  --token HEX_TOKEN   [Required] Camera miio token.

Modes:
  --rtsp PORT         Enable RTSP server.
  --stdout            Enable output to stdout.

--token [hex_token]

If you don't already have the miio token for your device you can try:

Keep in mind that reseting and re-adding the device to MiHome app will change the token.

Modes:

--rtsp [port]

Starts a rtsp server on the specified port with live video data.

--stdout

Dumps the raw h264 stream to stdout on realtime to allow usage to other programs via linux pipe.

Example use with a webRTC server running janus on a Raspberry Pi

videop2proxy --ip CAMERA_IP --token CAMERA_HEX_TOKEN --stdout \
| gst-launch-1.0 -v fdsrc ! h264parse ! rtph264pay config-interval=1 pt=96 ! udpsink host=127.0.0.1 port=8004

Known limitations

The program does not do any additional processing to the raw h264 video feed provided by the P2P camera.Some h264 decoders will like it less than others.
Given the nature of the UDP connection for the P2P client, some frames/data will be lost and video may freeze intermittently. It is the expected behaviour. You can only try to improve the network path.
This is a fast hack, pull requests welcome.

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